Major and critical incidents

Critical incident

Any incident where the effectiveness of the police response is likely to have a significant impact on the confidence of

The victim

Their Family

Any or the community

Examples of escalation

suspicious explained death

Homicides

Incidents requiring firearms response

Vulnerable MISPER

Domestic Abuse

Serious Sexual Abuse

Hate Crime

Crimes involving particularly vulnerable or young victims

Linked series crime, especially vulnerable or young victims

Crimes involving high profile victims or offenders

Crimes where a Polie officer is suspected of committing the offence

Incidents where the police may be responsible for the death or serious injury

Critical incident management

1 - preparing for a critical incident

2 - Managing Critical incidents

3 - Restoring public confidence

How to identify a critical incident

Tension and vulnerability

Situation awareness

Command structure

Gold command - set strategy

Silver - Creates tactical plan in line with the strategy

Bronze - Executes plan using available resources

Major Incident

Any event or situation with a range of serious consequences which requires special arrangements to be implemented by one or more emergency responder agency

Emergency

JESIP